On the billing

As with any region packed with history, knowhow, cultural heritage and traditions, a year in the Ardennes is punctuated with festive moments and commemorations when you can be reacquainted with your roots and spend great times of conviviality.

Local brotherhood associations, who assure such traditions are upheld, meet up every year, as is their custom, in Charleville-Mézières for a unique event in France.

On a (very) large scale, Sedan's Medieval Festival is a major event of the year.

In the grandiose setting of the Meuse Valley, the Aymon Folk Festival, held every year in Bogny on the Quatre Fils Aymon Plateau, brings together different types of musical legend.

Just before the new school year, the Cabaret Vert, 'the festival of festivals', with a 'different' angle, likes to describe itself as, "Green, alternative and an opponent of unhealthy eating and bad beer!"